The moment my wife sat in one it was an automatic disqualified. It’s down to how cramp it was and how big the transmission tunnel is in the back since it still designed to work as an ICE. It didn’t fit the bill as a family hauler. Honestly if I were still single I probably get it (or the C40) since the performance and specs lined up so well with me.
Not everyone does cross country cannonballs and I do feel like things will get better especially with NACS opening up for non-Tesla. Tesla had their long lines in the past and I was there to witness, so it wasn’t always this rosy.
Literally the first thing I was thinking yet OP seemed to have ignore that in the “observation” part. It would have helped the folks here if OP told us whether the EVgo were just as bad or not.
Congrats on your purchase and thanks for sharing your experience. Wife and I also put the Ioniq 5 on the top but the problem is that the SEL doesn’t have memory seats so for a car that would be shared regularly we would need to spring for a Limited which would be over $50k. We also test drove the ID4 and oddly it also felt sluggish as well.
I also did a back to back with ID4 and Ioniq 5 (Pro S RWD vs Limited RWD) and my wife really didn’t like the ID4 even though the price was favorable. She didn’t like the seating comfort/ergonomic of the ID4, she’s short (4’11”) so getting high enough made her very close to the steering wheel and sun visor. And second the accelerator on the ID4 feels mushy like it’s on Eco mode. The 5 felt the same mushiness on Eco as well but a touch of a button to normal made it much snappier which she prefers.
Right, the EQB is a brick. Going by OP number, it was $289 and assuming $0.43 per KW, that’s 672kWh. For 1400 miles that’s 2.0 miles/kwh.